I know you hit on this several weeks ago but I was wondering if you can explain again for those who suffer from cerebral flatulence (maybe it's my age--not asking for medical advice--just a general question). Will you still see patients from three years ago that are on Medicare (meaning are they "grand fathered in)? Or is the Medicare Change for everyone including past patients. Okay, I don't think this makes an OUNCE of sense but maybe someone can rescue me here...............cerebral flatulence; I am sticking too it! Thanks Grumpy! You have one heck of a blog and I love the stories. I just pray that MY NEUROLOGIST doesn't have a BLOG. For goodness sakes I hope that your not my NEURO (LOL). So, does anyone know what these patients are going to do other than CLOG up ER's? Just wondering, really! Take care!

I used to love saying "one moment please - I'll just put you on hold to transfer you straight through!!" and put them on hold. And continue to. Sometimes - they were so caught up in their own recited guff I would play with them a little and could say all sorts of stuff and they always reply in the same way- never really listening - (after I had said NO several times) I might say something like "OK, yes, our moon is made of spreadable cheese, and that system works fine for us" , or "the office trombone player you requested is in a lesbian tangled tryst right about now - being tuesday - I'm looking at her diary- and hmm, ok , when she pops her clothes back on we'll be all go" or whatever, sometimes we would read sentences as answers from the local newspaper. French accents were fun too; movie lines, Couldn't help it - tried so hard to get a different response...and they would always reply like your Donny Dingo... no clue to what I had just said ..ignoring the 4 times I had said "no thank you! " from the get go!

Sorry, but so far, my experience with E-prescribing has been a TOTAL disaster. An office sent over an rx for Zocor (simvastatin) 20 mg...take one tablet four times daily as needed. The nurse couldn't understand why I called to get it corrected. Duh....

Thanks for clarifying that from your office policy; but the whole thing is as clear as mud for me. Will you still get paid the few bucks for seeing them or is it a wash. What I am trying to understand is that it's optional whether a doctor continue taking Medicare patients because the reinbursement is less? I can understand because I see what my PCP, NEURO, RHEUMY or any other one of my many doctors and I also see what they get paid and I find it to be a joke. My neuro spends AT LEAST an hour with me once every 2-3 months. He charges somewhere between (I can't remember who charges what) $175-$225 and gets about $100-$125. It's still a lot of money but, still.

Some of the poor things are only paid if they follow the script exactly. ::there, there poor things:: And then there's the proven scientific fact that working at a call center sucks 5 points off of your IQ for every 8 hours you have to work there. Now if some people only didn't have to pay college loans, electricity, food, housing, clothing, etcetera etcetera etcetera ::shudder::

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